necropola
@necropola@lemmy.sdf.org
MMO Casual. ActionRPG Mod2Win.
- Comment on What's your least favorite GW2 Vault Daily Task? 6 months ago:
Yeah, it would really help, if the people selecting those tasks would play their own game. The old daily system was the reason, why I tried out WvW afterall as a non-PvPer. I used to be there pretty much every day at least for the dailies and sometimes a lot longer, e. g. if I bumped into a friendly squad.
I also wish there was more variety and that the tasks were more balanced effort-wise, i. e. Spirit Vestibule is an extreme outlier in the daily category.
Last but not least I wish that Anet would stop treating Events like Quests. The old daily system did that, too. And even worse, they abused them again for the New Hero Jump Start. I can not overstate, how much I hate this. I want to bump into events by accident and not look for them.
- Submitted 6 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 10 comments
- Comment on When a Vault Daily is a Heart ... 6 months ago:
As long as I still have a character which does not have map/heart completion in all maps I don’t mind some actual progress while doing the daily.
By the way, the GW2Wiki maintains a list of easy daily/weekly objectives. Of course it does. 😄
- Submitted 6 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 4 comments
- Comment on Fucking finally. A.k.a Memestrel isn't real, Memestrel can't hurt you. Memestrel: 6 months ago:
since greatsword is long range on Mesmer, rifle should have been a melee weapon
😄 That’s exactly what I was thinking, too.
- Comment on Engineer - Weapon & Kit Swapping Keybinds 6 months ago:
Overkill?
- Submitted 6 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 2 comments
- Comment on Fucking finally. A.k.a Memestrel isn't real, Memestrel can't hurt you. Memestrel: 7 months ago:
… unless they have damage modifiers tied to being farther away like
We actually know very little about the new weapons. Probably because they are far from finished. ArenaNet is coming in hot ….
Please note that since this is a beta test, there will be placeholder UI, art, and audio assets for some of the weapon skills.
- Comment on Patch 15.11.23 7 months ago:
Still fixing the November 7th bugs which are immediately affecting new content. Not to mention collateral damage to existing content like the Birthday Cake or the Jade Bot Buffs which have already been hit by the Halloween patch. The game seems to be falling apart.
- Comment on PSA: Legendary Starter Kit - Set 2 - BUGGED! 7 months ago:
Probably a false alarm.
- Comment on Amnytas meta bugged? 7 months ago:
DST in Germany ended on 2023-10-29 (2 weeks ago). You probably would have noticed by now, if the GW2wiki/Browser time is off by one hour, right?
- Comment on NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release 7 months ago:
… .and quests quest-like achievement-structure.
With the worst being task collections which have to be completed in order, e. g. Frode’s Journal which even forces you to do/repeast the 3 SotO metas in order or it doesn’t count,
W T F !
- Comment on NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release 7 months ago:
Yep, I’m probably one of those fans. Though I also very much like the team-play aspect that usually comes with (instanced) group content. What I would like are random encounters you’d find in open world (possibly instanced) which would require people to spontaneously group up as a team of max. 5 to beat it.
Similar to Dungeoneering in RuneScape, but with occurances/entrances randomly spread out over the open world, using your current gear scaled to the level of the encounter and difficulty/rewards scaled to the number of people in the group.
- Comment on LFG entries with blocked players in the squad getting hidden 7 months ago:
My interpretation is that the support team is overwhelmed by the amount of bugs that the content teams are releasing into the world on a now (new release schedule) even more regular basis.
- Comment on NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release 7 months ago:
I think that GW2 already lost it’s way/innocence very early on when they listened to a vocal minority of players who wanted WoW-like progression and instanced content … which lead to Fractals and Ascended Gear with Agony Infusions and later with HoT even to Raids.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with people enjoying this type of content. I hear that WoW is very much alive and – according to MightyTeapot – Mythic+ is even better than Fractals. Funny enough, he also says that he is playing an Instance Simulator (and not an MMO).
What I fiind kinda sad is that ArenaNet didn’t have the balls (or chance?) to stick with their original vision of what an MMO should be like and instead tried to be more like WoW.
- Comment on NCSOFT - Q3 2023 Earnings Release 7 months ago:
I like this/your illustration with colors indicating the exxpansion releases:
It’s also very interesting to look at the quarter after each release which I would read as follows:
- HoT was hyped very much, but wasn’t very well received. Many players probably found it too hard (before nerfs and power creep from later expansions) and told their friends about it.
- PoF wasn’t hyped very much, but was very well received. People loved their mounts and spread the word.
- EoD+Steam was … I don’t know.
- Submitted 7 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 12 comments
- Comment on Game Update Notes: November 7, 2023 7 months ago:
Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake bugged since today’s update?
- When i use Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake and eat it, it won’t reset my buff time to 30 mins. This happens since today’s update. I assume this is a bug
- Same here. Even the Malnourished effect can’t be overwritten with the Birthday Cake
Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake (GW2Wiki - 2021-08-24)
Bug: Unlike the Birthday Blaster, the feast’s effect is unable to override either itself or the Malnourished effect, only allowing reapplication every 35 minutes.
- Comment on Game Update Notes: November 7, 2023 7 months ago:
Rewards Temporarily Removed From Road to Heitor Meta Event
We are temporarily removing rewards from the Road to Heitor meta event while we address an issue. We are working to resolve this as soon as possible and will keep you updated.
Does anybody know, why?
- Comment on Game Update Notes: November 7, 2023 7 months ago:
Warning. The Legendary Start Kit - Set 2 is bugged at the moment. See my PSA post.
- Submitted 7 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 1 comment
- Comment on [Screenshot] Love Spooky Season 7 months ago:
Your screenshot is now featured on the sidebar. 😺
- Comment on [Screenshot] Love Spooky Season 7 months ago:
Your screenshot won. Congratulations!
- Submitted 7 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 6 comments
- Submitted 7 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 1 comment
- PSA: Some maps might not progress the Vault Special Task "Complete 15 Tier 3 Rift Hunts"lemmy.sdf.org ↗Submitted 7 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 0 comments
- Comment on "Any potential future monetization in [the Wizard's Vault] must avoid touching this core loop [of daily login and daily achievement rewards]" 7 months ago:
We wanted to drive players to older content, as our game is heavily focused on horizontal progression, while ensuring players had reasons to go to the same places across the breadth of the game world and have other players to play with. This is all driven by a desire to increase player engagement through regular logins and longer play sessions through a system with a low barrier to entry. Increased engagement drives retention and MTX KPIs.
across the breadth of the game world or the same boring set of tasks over and over gain?
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure – Launch Story Flashback 7 months ago:
I do not deny that there was a significant shift from player to shareholder focus over time. GW2 started out as a game for players to enjoy (or rather what the devs would enjoy playing) and largely turned into a revenue engine for shareholders to enjoy. At least they are not triple dipping (box + subscription + cash shop) like ActivisionBlizzard with WoW, and I believe that there are still (a few) people at ArenaNet who are fighting for the players and against 100% shareholder interest.
What I meant is that there is also an issue with every system that gets bigger and bigger over time and that is increasing complexity which makes changes harder and harder. Pretty much the only way to battle this is to refactor and/or reimplement parts of the system (or the entire system) once in a while. To me it seems that this has been largely neglected over the past years, though there have been recent announcements that they are doing just that at the moment.
Anyway, how much resources you spend on things that do not immediatley create content/revenue is a management decision and this is where it comes full circle.
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure – Launch Story Flashback 7 months ago:
Do you think we would get more content, if we’d paid more? I even doubt that. They simply can’t deliver more content and give us rewards instead.
And Amnytas isn’t even a complete map. Mabye a quarter of a map cloned 4 times with rmostly recycled events which are disabled whenever the meta runs. The only unique feature of this map is its lag and FPS drop.
- Comment on Game Update Notes: October 17, 2023 7 months ago:
Bug Fix:
- Fixed an issue that would have caused the current Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure Wizard’s Vault season to end earlier than intended.
